From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "Stanislaw Gruszka" <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
莊彥宣 <yhchuang@realtek.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Pkshih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
tehuang@realtek.com,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/12] rtwlan: mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:08:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg7r40gm.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP71bdW0P8xFeLfGgNeENJf_9+S+DTnK4S=tXZi1FPY7U-AL3A@mail.gmail.com> (Larry Finger's message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2018 16:59:32 -0500")
(adding greg)
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:12 AM Stanislaw Gruszka
> <sgruszka@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:03:55PM +0800, yhchuang@realtek.com
> wrote:
>
> I didn't do detailed review, but my general impression is very
> very
> positive. New driver looks great!
>
> Just 2 generic remarks:
> - please add MAINTAINERS file entry
> - please post a patch or request to remove staging/rtlwifi driver
> since this one is replace for it (8822BE PCI-ID is the same)
>
> Keep in mind that the new driver is going into wireless, and the old
> one is in staging. With separate maintainers, doing this in a single
> series of commits is very difficult to coordinate. One way would be to
> submit the deletion patch to GregKH (or whomever is maintaining
> staging) with a note that it should be held until rtwlan appears in
> mainline, and then submitted directly to mainline as well as staging.
> I'm sure there will be a solution, just that it cannot be handled as a
> normal patch set.
My guess is that Greg would be ok that we remove the staging driver via
wireless-drivers-next at the same time as we apply the new driver to
drivers/net/wireless. But let's coordinate that with Greg once this new
driver is ready for commit, we are not quite there yet.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-24 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-21 6:03 [RFC 00/12] rtwlan: mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:03 ` [PATCH 01/12] rtwlan: main files yhchuang
2018-09-27 13:50 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-09-27 15:40 ` Larry Finger
2018-09-28 9:08 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-10-04 12:32 ` Kalle Valo
2018-09-28 3:20 ` Tony Chuang
2018-09-28 9:29 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-09-28 11:32 ` Tony Chuang
2018-10-02 10:29 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-10-02 15:23 ` Larry Finger
2018-10-03 2:57 ` Tony Chuang
2018-10-03 5:40 ` Larry Finger
2018-10-04 12:39 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-04 13:42 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-10-04 16:19 ` Larry Finger
2018-10-05 7:51 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-10-06 12:20 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-06 12:16 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-04 12:35 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-02 9:35 ` Tony Chuang
2018-10-02 10:14 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-10-03 3:25 ` Tony Chuang
2018-10-03 6:05 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-10-04 12:30 ` Kalle Valo
2018-09-21 6:03 ` [PATCH 02/12] rtwlan: core files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:03 ` [PATCH 03/12] rtwlan: hci files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:03 ` [PATCH 04/12] rtwlan: trx files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 05/12] rtwlan: mac files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 06/12] rtwlan: fw and efuse files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 07/12] rtwlan: phy files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 08/12] rtwlan: debug files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 09/12] rtwlan: chip files yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 10/12] rtwlan: 8822B init table yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 11/12] rtwlan: 8822C " yhchuang
2018-09-21 6:04 ` [PATCH 12/12] rtwlan: Kconfig & Makefile yhchuang
2018-09-22 23:39 ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-23 8:55 ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-21 13:12 ` [RFC 00/12] rtwlan: mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips Stanislaw Gruszka
2018-09-24 11:05 ` Kalle Valo
2018-09-25 11:09 ` Tony Chuang
2018-10-06 11:45 ` Kalle Valo
[not found] ` <CAP71bdW0P8xFeLfGgNeENJf_9+S+DTnK4S=tXZi1FPY7U-AL3A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-24 11:08 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2018-09-24 17:09 ` Larry Finger
2018-09-25 11:10 ` Tony Chuang
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